The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-13

he would have been drowned had it not
been for another colored man who happened
10 be near by who went i'll and rescued him.
The horse was also cut loose from the wagon
and saved, but the trunk went on down
stream and was lost.
Last Thursday, while W. T. Peek, of ITALIA
ferro county, was on his way to White
Plains, he had some trouble with some ne
groes. Mr.. Peek had missed some corn from
his field and had accused negro of stealing
it. The negro gave him some insult and
Mr.. Peek slapped him for it. This caused
bad blood, and on the morning above named
Mr. Peek was met in the road by two ne.
groes who told him TO halt. He did not halt,
but went on, ms he was unarmed. He had
not gone far before two more negroes
stepped out in the road and the two who
followed him also came up and surrounded
Mr.. Peek. 1t is said that one Of them had
knife drawn and another pulled up pis-
tol so that it could be seen and threatened
to kill or brutality whip Mr. Peek. How
ever, he succeeded in getting away from
them without much trouble. He swore out
a warrant for Burt Alexander, Brad Shorter
and others. Saturday night the Sheriff
caught Burt and one of the accused parties
escaped at the time they arrested Burt.
A gentleman who lives near Ellijay put
his fine watch i'll his pants pocket and
wended his way TO the cotton patch for the
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! ping up a few punches of grass he felt some
thing cold on his leg and thought it was a
sand cutter crawling up his pants. He at
once dropped his hoe and grabbed his pants,
| pulling them tight to his leg to
| stop the lizard from crawling, and
commenced beating on it with his
| fist, After knocking and stamping all the
cotton downin half acre patch, his wife APP
| pearet upon the scene, and excItlngly ex-
claimed what in the world is the matter, are
| you sick No, there is a lizard up my
pants and | just feel him now, biting.
BY this time he decided to pull off his
pants TO see what it had done, and to his
| chagrin he found that his watch had slipped
| out of his pocket, and fell the length of the
chain down his leg and he had absolutely
broken his watch all to pieces, and drove the
parts Of the crystal into his leg. He is now
convalescing.
Some time ago the Union Land and Oil
Company of Macon was formed and pur-
| chased a tract of land in Kern county, Cal,
twentY-one miles long by three in width,
containing about 5000 acres. Last spring
James II. Campbell paid a visit to the prop
erty and was much pleased with the pros
pect In the valleys he found excellent
grazing lands, and ON the mountain slopes
he found signs OF oil and rich mineral de-
posts. A dny or two ago the company re-
ceived notice from the manager of
the oil wells that he struck a fine
flow of forty barrels per day. He
desired to go deeper so as to strike a bigger
stream, but was compelled TO drive down a
strong force pump SO as to get the oil under
control before he could continue boring
The stockholders of the company feel highly
elated, and the prospects are that Macon
will develop half dozen Coal Oil John
MES" before Christmas. Another property
at Goldman, Ala, in which Mr.. Campbell
is interested, promises to pan out quite as
we'll Natural gas has been discovered
there, and the owners of the property are
very hopeful of a fortune in it.
A second food of rain visited Ebert
county last Sunday and Monday that liter
ally swept everything before 1t. The water
courses IN the county reached height of 5
feet above the overflow of one week ago.
Every bridge in the county has been swept
away and all the mill-dams so far as heard
from. NJ. V. Days and j. S. Pulliam's
mills on Beaverdam creek were washed
away, The loss to the county in bridges
| alone will probably reach $1,000 All the
| crops on the water courses that were left by
the former overflow are totally ruined.
Cotton on the uplands has been damaged by
the continued wet weather, At least Is per
cent. of the corn is also damaged, large
quantities of it being on the ground The
totol loss to the county by the two freshets
will not fall short of $3.50,
There are ten washouts on the Elber-
ton railroad in fifty miles. No trains
have arrived in Elberuon since last Satur-
day, and mail communications from every
direction are cut off. The County Commits
sionerS have decided to build several substan-
tial bridges at the most important crossing
points on the larger streams in the county,
and will begin work at once as communica-
ton is cut off in every direction.
Americas Recorder: Quite number of
farmers of Sumter and adjoining counties
have, during the past two years, devoted
considerable attention to stock raising, with
most gratifying success. The result is that
home-raised horses and mules are fast be-
coming numerous and hundreds and thou
sands of dollars that heretofore went to
Tennessee and Kentucky every year for the
purchase of animals, is now being saved 10
the farmers of this section. 1t is esti-
mated that a horse or mule can be raised in
this section for less than $40, and Mt three
years old sells readily for from 1926 to 5000,
owing TO size and blood. Among those in
this immediate vicinity who have given at
tention to this lucrative business are Capt
John A. Cobb, Capt. c. w. Fielder and Al
bert Brady, each of whom have a large
number of colts and brood mares, and who
propose TO enter extensively into the bust
ness, Capt, Cobb having al
ready some twelve or fifteen colts,
Oh Inc peUlSIeS winch he values nlEnIN.
Mr.. Brady has raised several beautiful
horses on his farm near Americas, and
would have no difficulty in disposing Of
them at figures ranging from 1925 to $500.
Why all farmers in this section do not raise
their own horses is mystery to us, for at
such figures as those given above there is
fortune in She business as compared to cot
ton raising, and the trouble and expense
attached TO it amounts to almost nothing as
compared to farming.
James d. Maund is the general store
keeper and gauger who has charge of the
bonded warehouses of those grain distilleries
which are suspended. Monday afternoon
he left Atlanta for Roy, in Gilmer county,
for the purpose OF withdrawing two pack
ages of liquor from the distillery of l. ID.
Edmundson, who lives a few miles from
Roy Sheriff NJ. Cox, of Gilmer, and
Deputy Collector Anderson accompanied
Storekecper Maund. Having performed
their several missions they were about to
start back Edmundson, ST., talked to
them in friendly way, and just before
they took their departure told them that he
could show them a much better road than
the one by which they had come He
pointed out the way and went with them a
short distance. Then he left them and the
three horsemen wendell their way merrily.
About n mile from the warehouse they came
TO Tlckanetaly river, small stream, which
they forded. Sheriff Cox and Mr.. Maund
were few yards in advance of Mr.. Alex